Summer School: Astronomy and Optics

June-July 2014

Tue 1 About the class, GTKY, card sort
2&3 GTKY, learning scientific notation and practicing

Wed 1 Using Scientific Notation
2 Night Sky and Time
3 10,000,000 scale of the Solar System

Thu 1 Body Geography - Time of Day
2 Phases of the Moon
3 Cosmic Voyage video

Fri 1 Review moon phases
Seasons in gym
2 Computer packet on seasons
3 Spectroscopes

Mon 1 Flat Mirror experiment
2 Kaleidoscope and Exploring curved mirrors
3 Start EM Webquest

Tue 1 Finish EM Webquest
2 Mirror lab
3 Start Mirror ray diagrams

Wed 1 Finish Mirror Ray Diagrams
2 & 3 Start Astro Powerpoint project

Thu 1 Finish Astro Powerpoint project
2 Of cars and towels and bending
3 Create a review board game

Fri 1 Jeopardy Review
2 Test on Scale and Mirrors
3 Light through a block of glass

Mon 1 Fabric of the Cosmos "What is Space" Video
2 Light Lab activities
3 Practice drawing refracted rays

Tue: 1 Lens lab
2 Lens equations
3 Start NOVA hunting the edge of space telescope video

Wed: 1 Finish "Hunting the Edge of Space" video
1 & 2 Build telescope and look out the windows
3 Start Vee Chart Project

Thu: 1, 2, 3 Vee Chart Project, start Main Sequence activity

Fri: 1 Final Project work time
2 Finish Main Sequence, start Galaxies
3 Finish Galaxies, start Hubble's Law


Mon 6/30
1 Finish Hubble's Law
2 Create and play review game
3 Test on lenses and the universe

Tue 7/1
1 Seeing Black Holes video
2&3 Work on final project (as agreed upon with Leslie

Wed 7/2
1 Hubble Space Telescope video
2&3 Work on final project

Thu7/3
Make-up work and finish project